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Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...

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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

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His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills u...more

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But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had...more

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It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we can...more

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look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and f...more

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Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame mer...more

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Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolis...more

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Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, sh...more

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A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaqu...more

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An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his t...more

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I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, ...more

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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.